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- ActiveGrid recipe: Soak in XML. Integrate. Scale.
- For companies looking to speed up integration between new and legacy systems (or, just new and new systems), Ive seen a lot of products out that there that use Web services standards namely XML to (1) give everything that needs to be integrated a common XML interface and (2) provide...
- Tags: XML, ActiveGrid, Peter Yared
- Blog posts 2006-10-06
- Lightweight architecture
- Enterprises running three tiers of servers now have another option, using inexpensive commodity machines. Peter Yared of ActiveGrid shows how "lightweight architecture" reduces costs and increases scalability.
- Tags: Architecture, ActiveGrid, Scalability, Server
- Whiteboards 2006-03-10
- ActiveGrid pushes lightweight LAMP development
- Peter Yared, CEO of ActiveGrid, has said that Java is a dinosaur. In our podcast interview, Yared, who spent five years at Sun working with Java, explains why he believes that the alternative--lightweight development based on open source LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl/Python/PHP)--is preferable to Java for many kinds...
- Tags: Java, Peter Yared
- Blog posts 2006-01-29
- LAMP start-up ActiveGrid lands $10 million
- LAMP start-up ActiveGrid lands $10 millionCreated by a bunch of punks, and gets more invetment dollars than MS .NET!!Tells you something about the quality of MS products.
- Tags: ActiveGrid
- Discussion threads 2005-07-19
- ActiveGrid
- As RISC architecture was to the 1980s, so grid computing is to our time, a fundamental re-arrangement of computing that promises to deliver more speed, and more power, to more people than it would seem Moore's Law might allow. Open source now has a big dog in the fight. At...
- Tags: grid, ActiveGrid
- Blog posts 2004-11-17
- BitRock Case Study: ActiveGrid
- ActiveGrid, the Enterprise Web 2.0 company, simplifies the development and deployment of rich, interactive web applications for Global 2000 corporations. "Fast" and "Easy" are important parts of ActiveGrid's value proposition. The company wanted new users to manually download, install, and configure an Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Python/Perl AMP environment would not...
- Tags: ActiveGrid, Web 2.0, Open Source, Internet
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- As IT gains needed maturity, role of software nears tipping point
- The act of creating software may be going on 50 years old, but its still an immature pursuit. A few current events in the market, however, offer indicators that the software-as-lifecycle concept may shove development practices over a tipping point to an era of intense and needed transformation.A number of...
- Tags: Open Source, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, Enterprise Java, SOA, SOA Governance, Microsoft, Software Development, Eclipse, IBM, IDEs, Developer Tools, HP, Testing Tools, Application Lifecycle Management, Agile Development, .NET, software
- Blog posts 2007-01-29
- Microsoft: Steward of Linux, protector of competition
- Peter Yared, CEO at ActiveGrid, has penned a CNET commentary on the Microsoft-Novell Linux agreements that seems to call into question Linuxs "special" status going forward. The notion that open source and GPL licensing differentiates Linux and other open source products from commercial operating systems is now moot, Yared seems...
- Tags: Peter Yared, GPL, .NET, Patents, Intellectual Property, Red Hat, Software Development, Windows, Microsoft, Linux, Vista, Software Infrastructure, Open Source
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
- Mulesource gets behind open source ESB platform
- Open source is well known as disruptive software industry force in the guise of operating systems (Linux, Solaris), servers (Apache, TomCat, JBoss), databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and other categories, ranging from business intelligence (JasperSoft, Pentaho) to system management (Qlusters, GroundWork).The latest project to come out of the shadows to challenge the...
- Tags: Mule, MuleSource
- Blog posts 2006-10-02
- Riding the hockey stick: Scaling Web 2.0 software
- With all the talk last week about MySpace becoming the #1 most visited site on the Web, there's also been a lot of talk about how Web 2.0 sites like MySpace handle their sharp growth rates. Because Web 2.0 sites explicitly leverage network effects, when they hit their...
- Tags: Web, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2006-07-16
- Google Spreadsheets getting Charts soon?
- To quench my curiosity, I had to take a closer look at the source code for Google Spreadsheets after it was updated yesterday. To my surprise or not, it shows clearly that Google has definitely been working on a "Chart Create" feature that many users have been waiting for.The...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Spreadsheets, spreadsheet
- Blog posts 2006-07-14
- How to develop a Google Maps mashup
- How to develop a Google Maps mashupI *might* start beleiving in "Web 2.0"...... when all of the "Web 2.0" and "mashup" folks have an ecology of applications where less than, say, 5% of them rely upon Google Maps.If this is the best you guys can do, you don't have a...
- Tags: Development tools, Google Maps API, JavaScript, mashup, Google Maps, Web 2.0, programming, Google Inc., Web
- Discussion threads 2006-04-05
- Answering Sun's open source Java question is easy, and it's one word
- Kudos to Peter Yared at ActiveGrid for banging on Sun Microsystems on open sourcing Java, or at least the JVM. And thanks to Dan Farber for amplifying the call. However, I can answer the question for Sun with a single word. Why not open source Java? The answer is: IBM.Sun...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Java, open source, open-source Java
- Blog posts 2006-03-29
- Open source Java heating up
- Peter Yared, formerly of Sun and now CEO of ActiveGrid, posted an open letter to Sun President and COO Jonathan Schwartz regarding open sourcing Java on his blog. Here's the text:Dear Jonathan,Long time no see! The same way you enjoy writing open letters to IBM and others in your blog...
- Tags: Java, open source
- Blog posts 2006-03-29
- IT companies are hooking up like divorcees at a Vegas wedding chapel
- Let's plumb the IT news and rumor mills for any logical extrapolations about what to expect next on the M&As front. Two hot areas to focus on: SOA and data integration.First, Progress Software makes a strong move this week to assemble a goodly part of an SOA solution infrastructure offering...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Mergers & Acquisitions, Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, information technology, camp, SOA
- Blog posts 2006-01-20
- Open-source LAMP a beacon to developers
- Open-source LAMP a beacon to developersOpen-source LAMP a beacon to developersSorry, this project is DOA. For the most part you will not see any enterprises using it, probably just a few small websites here and there. Linsux is dead and will be obsolete soon anyway so anyone that...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Scripting languages, Application servers, Middleware, Apache Software Foundation, Linsux, PHP, Microsoft IIS Server, Open-source LAMP, open source
- Discussion threads 2005-06-14
- The rise of the open sorcerers
- Open source has become far more than a movement to democratize or free up software development and distribution from the clutches of companies producing monolithic, proprietary products. IBM and other establishment companies sans Microsoft have certainly joined, rather than opposed, the movement, mostly for reasons related to outflanking competitors. Proprietary...
- Tags: open source
- Blog posts 2005-04-19
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